Edman85
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I did 😀
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Yeah, I addressed that in a later post when I reached out to somebody for a sanity check.
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Explaining the joke, not letting me edit:
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I would argue a lot of the highlight tweeting accounts are in the same bucket as Hasty/Emily. Take that tweet a couple weeks ago that showed a play Jung made that was really a very poor play at 2B, but they spun it as some great play. Tweeting highlights is obviously going to have some selection bias baked in unless you show their Javier Baez moments on sliders away.
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Is he funny or something?
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I have a really hard time being that dismissive of mental health stuff. It's going to take a lot more than "giving him a prozac..."
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I've done it. I had leave entitled, was unhealthily burned out in mid-December and abruptly used it. Wasn't fired, and now 8 or so years later currently near the top of the org chart. Read the book I linked. This is VERRRY common in baseball, particularly with guys fighting back from injury. It's tough and grueling.
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Somebody with some general knowledge of other painkiller situations suggested this likely is NOT that, simply because he is with the team and they would likely keep him away from others if that was the case. Carry on.
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Well, I know it's not just me who thinks this is a possibility.
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Even that might be a stretch outside of the Tigers Prospect Twitter Bubble. I'd need to see more to that argument than some proclamations.
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1. Health is part of development, but I'll put that aside since there is some luck and randomness there. 2. I just don't think this is borne out in the results relative to other teams. Yeah, the Tigers have done better developing pitchers than hitters, but still have had many flame out in recent years. Is Mize a development success when you take him 1-1? Is Manning a development success when he is taken 1-6 and takes six years to start to pitch well at the big league level? Are those guys development successes or tanking successes? Some other highish picks in recent years that flamed out: Adam Wolf, Hugh Smith, Gio Arriera, Beau Burrows. There has been a lot of stagnation on the international side: guys like Guzman and Montero to name a couple. The Tigers may be average/above averagish at best at developing pitchers, and certainly don't compare to (off the top of my head) the Guardians, Rays, Dodgers, Yankees, Brewers, Astros, Giants, etc. that just pump guys out and have numerous guys banging down the door ever year.
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I seem to have seen two things related to it and know it's a big problem in baseball. Put two and two together and suggested it might be four, and recommended a book that goes into the topic for further reading.
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I don't know, I said it smells like it. Struggling with rehab, mental illness. It's a big time underreported underside of baseball. It's my guess.
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Avila was the one who publicly floated the idea of voiding the contract, IIRC.
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Along those lines, some of this may be Avila dysfunction.
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09/02/2022 7:10 EDT Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers
Edman85 replied to casimir's topic in Game Threads
How's the Tigers Season going, you may ask. It's going "Eddie is watching Big Ten Volleyball instead" well. -
I agree with this.
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Yeah, I wasn't really going at you. Just trying to stem the tide before people dump on him. https://www.amazon.com/Bigger-Than-Game-Restitching-League/dp/0806534877 Good book on this topic from somebody who lived it if anybody is interested.
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The Meadows thing reeks of painkiller addiction, which is a serious thing and doesn't deserve scorn.
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Yeah, you kinda do. It seems outsmarting them would be the preferred lane.
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Again, let's go back to 2016. We realize that a majority of America, not just backwoods ignoramuses, maybe dose on 5 minutes of current events a day, right? "Basket of Deplorables" backfired because it was able to be cast as a broad insult toward people who don't have time in their lives for political nuance. Just that picture alone of an angry President with an ominous backdrop is enough to give political fuel to that class of person. That class of person isn't MAGA: they just have a busy job, families, and don't want to be dragged into this morasse.
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I didn't watch the speech. I was watching my alma mater play a close football game. I saw the picture circulating that was shown earlier where he looks angry with a black and red backdrop. I didn't think addressing the crazies was worthy of a primetime speech, and think it could offend some right-of center folks who weren't part of the crazy but could catch some clips in the wrong context and get mobilized (see Deplorables pt. 2). It just seemed like poking at some beehives unnecessarily.
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No, she went into it looking like a 90 year old college football talking head.
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Somehow a fellow Purdue fan thinks I'm still on his team and was blowing up my phone to vent about Biden instead of the football game last night and sent me some pic of Biden last night with swastikas all over. Pretty much calling him a fascist. Quick J6 nazi Google search couldn't find any, but I thought there were. I was going to present a counter.
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Deplorables pt 2
